The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday arrested a former Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, over the Nigerian Immigration recruitment scam in which no fewer than 20 job seekers died.
Moro and two other officials in the ministry were said to have been arrested by the anti-graft agency on Monday evening in Abuja.
The two other officials, according to sources, were former Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Anaesthesia Nwaobia, and a deputy director in the ministry.
The EFCC had intensified effort recover about N600 million said to have been realised from the proceeds of the online registration by Nigerian job seekers, who enrolled for the ill-fated immigration recruitment in 2014.
Each of the candidates was made to part with N1000 through a company allegedly engaged a top politicians and officials of the Nigerian Immigration Service,
Abba Moro, whose ministry supervised the agency and NIS boss, David Paraddang were initially suspended and eventually sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Among those who paid the money, were 15 innocent Nigerians who were crushed to death in a stampede across rowdy stadia in the country where the controversial job tests were to be carried out
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